The invention discloses a method and a device for selecting the small unit average constant false alarm rate for the real-time detection of a moving target of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR); the device comprises: a linear wave detector, a first reference unit, a first protection unit, a second protection unit, a detection unit, a comparator unit, a first average processing unit, a second average processing unit, a small-selecting comparator unit and a multiplier unit; the method comprises that: the image data of the synthetic aperture radar is carried out the linear wave detection and then is sequentially input into the detection unit; the both ends of the detection unit are respectively provided with one protection unit and the reference unit, the small value of the two values after averaging each reference unit is taken, and the threshold is obtained by multiplying the small value with the detection threshold; the detection unit and the threshold are compared to obtain the detection result; then, the image edge is carried out the detection to obtain the whole frame of the detected target image. The method solves the problems such as lower detection probability, high false alarm rate and vulnerability of the interference of the prior art; and the invention provides the system which has small calculation amount, simple operation, improved detection effect and is applicable to the real-time detection of the moving target.